World's First
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While Amazon and other companies are busy navigating through the red tape required to get drones buzzing through the urban skies with their pizza payloads, the Icelandic city of Reykjavik has become the first in the world to be served by commercial delivery flights.
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Australian company Euclideon has built a working prototype of what it calls the world's first true multi-user hologram table. Up to four people can walk around a holographic image and interact with it wearing only a pair of glasses - a far cry from bulky AR headgear. It's set to go on sale in 2018.
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We've seen those propeller LED displays make their way from shop windows to bicycle wheels, but now Japan's mobile phone operator, NTT Docomo has utilized the technology in a vehicle of the aerial kind. The result is a what the company believes is the world's first flying spherical drone display.
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3D-printing technology could revolutionize architecture in the coming years, allowing designers to literally click-and-print buildings. A step forward in the field comes via Dubai, where what's hailed as the world's first 3D-printed office was recently completed.
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The pursuit of personal flight took a promising, and kind of wacky, step forward today with the electric 18-rotor Volocopter lifting somebody into the air for the very first time.
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One of only ten surviving Kenbak-1 personal computers from 1971 was knocked down at auction for €34,000 (US$36,500) last weekend.
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A unique new attraction is set to be launched along with the Studio City entertainment resort in Macau, China. It is claimed that the Golden Reel Ferris will be the highest in Asia. It will also reportedly be the first in the world to take a figure-eight form.
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The world's first 3D-printed office building will be constructed in Dubai. Printed layer by layer by a 3D printer standing 20 ft (6 m) tall, the building will cover approximately 2,000 sq ft (186 sq m) and go up in a matter of weeks.
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The emergence of adaptive cruise control in cars has certainly been a welcome development, and now Honda is promising to take things a step further. It says its Intelligent Adaptive Cruise Control (i-ACC) can of predict the chances of a car cutting into your lane up to five seconds before it occurs.
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In a world first, surgeons at St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney, Australia have successfully transplanted a "dead" heart into a patient. Thanks to the use of a preservation solution, doctors were able to resuscitate and transplant the donor heart after it had stopped beating for up to 20-30 minutes.
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Once Edmonton, Canada's new Waste-to-Biofuels Facility starts converting garbage into methanol and ethanol, it will be the world's first industrial-scale facility to do so. We recently got a guided tour of the place.
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Pathway Innovations and Technologies has updated its document camera line with what's billed as the world’s first 4K, USB 3.0 document camera with full-motion video: the Hovercam Solo 8.
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